In general, I would agree with the idea of learning social skills as a "second curriculum" in younger grades. (The academics I can, and do, supplement.) That doesn't man that school is the only place a child can be "socialized", but that wherever you choose to do it, the social skills are sort of time-limited, to a much greater degree than reading or earth science or multiplication (and make it much easier to learn that stuff in any setting, group or individual).
But what I hear from the OP is that the child simply 'can't' tolerate the K-2 setting. I don't claim to understand AS, but I wonder how one can
make a child be in a setting that doesn't appear 'to the child' to have anything to offer.
I'm also hearing that 3rd is good maybe 75% of the time or more, and lots of agreement that EDBD room is not the answer.
hummm
Grinity
